As we all know, HD7 volume is quite low compared to other phones. I recently bought a TPU case while i wait for my leather case to be delivered. I just noticed today that the sound from the speaker is now louder than before. i use to set my volume at 28 but now its 25 and still louder than my old setting (28).
I suspect that the HD7 phone originally has a lot of "sound leakage" due to thin battery cover, and the TPU cover now diffuses the "leak". Sound is now concentrated at the speaker and doesn't lose its volume due to aforementioned "leak"...
anyone noticed the same thing?
What I have found is that because the speaker is at the back of the phone ,most of the time it get covered and this reduces the volume, but if you lift the phone up like playing games the sound is louder because the speaker is exposed.
I guess that what your cover does give the speaker some space... Bad positioning of the speaker HTC there
Yeah i guess so cause i still have my hd2 and that phone has similar speaker location. It's louder than hd7 maybe due to hd2's protuding camera that leaves space between phone and the table. But i think the major factor is still the flimsier back that hd7 has that contributes most to the volume leak, tpu case aint that thick. Thanks for your feedback...
The speaker is decent. It even has good volume.
Iff you've got the tablet facing away from you!
This is really terrible placement of the speaker on this device. It's not a speaker for ringing as on a phone. It's a speaker that's meant to be heard when the tablet is in use with the display facing you. Cupping my hand over the speaker slit and extending that beyond the edge of the tablet works ... but isn't something you can really expect or want to do.
That's probably my biggest gripe with the tablet.
The screen isn't the best but.. I'll take it for the money.
Really, you don't like the screen? I think it has a better color tone than the iPad 3 honestly. Didn't really notice much of a difference in the resolution either.
The external sound's not too bad. If you put it on a surface then it helps amplify it, just like with a phone. The headphone sound quality on the other hand is outstanding! :good:
I wish manufacturers would figure out a way to have forward-facing speakers... my G2x has a speaker on the bottom. Better, but seriously... watching a YouTube clip without cupping my hand around the device to reflect the sound to my face would be a nice change. Meh... not that big of a deal to me but I do agree with your frustration.
It seems simple to me, there is already a bevel on these devices. They just need to make the bevel a little bit larger on the side to let the sound out. This is what my TV does and it works very well.
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I was looking at the design and from a "why did they do it that way?" perspective and two things are clear.
1. they want to present the face of the tablet as an unbroken sheet of glass (ohh, ahh!)
2. they don't want to incur the cost of putting a slit in the glass
They could reduce the size of the glass and have a very narrow molded plastic border on the top and bottom for stereo speakers. Would work a heck of a lot better but violate #1...
I really think they're destroying functionality for aesthetics.
Playbook (though bigger) does have forward facing speakers, and are probably the best sound that I've heard on a tablet mainly due to the placement.
its more so because on most phones, the microphone is at the bottom. putting a speaker next to a microphone never ends well. mainly because on calls where you use loud speaker, you'd get the endless loop/echo where the speaker feeds their audio back into the microphone. noise cancelling mics are useless for cancelling the audio since the noise cancelling mic is too far away from the speaker, so the latency doesnt help.
I somehow think putting a magnet aka speaker on the screen would cause problems with the capacitive touch.
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It sucks when you put the 7 on a stand and it is blocking the speaker and muffing the sound. But what can you do? Plug in some headphones that's what.
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Hexdecimal said:
Really, you don't like the screen? I think it has a better color tone than the iPad 3 honestly. Didn't really notice much of a difference in the resolution either.
The external sound's not too bad. If you put it on a surface then it helps amplify it, just like with a phone. The headphone sound quality on the other hand is outstanding! :good:
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Wait. What?! Can you provide a photo comparison of your device next to a iPad. This display has hardly any saturation or contrast compared to the iPad. The DAC in this thing is also horrid; audio sounds extremely bad with headphones. A world away from the Galaxy S III DAC.
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Really, you don't like the screen? I think it has a better color tone than the iPad 3 honestly. Didn't really notice much of a difference in the resolution either.
The external sound's not too bad. If you put it on a surface then it helps amplify it, just like with a phone. The headphone sound quality on the other hand is outstanding! :good:
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Well, I have both an iPad 3 and a Nexus 7, and while I like the Nexus 7 screen well enough, it doesn't really compare to the iPad's. Colors and saturation aren't even close, and nothing has text as good as the iPad (I think it's as much to do with how Android renders text as the resolution of the LCD). Don't get me wrong, text on the Nexus 7 is plenty good enough, but you can't say it's nearly as good as on the iPad.
My biggest problem with audio on the Nexus 7, both external and via headphones, is volume. It just doesn't get very loud. That's a complaint with the iPad 3, however, and really I have yet to come across a tablet with decent sound. So, that's not a fair knock against the Nexus 7.
Has anyone noticed a small bulge where the headphone jack hole meets the aluminium at the back of the phone? It's only really visible when the light catches it but I can feel it too. Just wondering if this is normal or not. Cheers.
Not for me small recess if anything.
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Known design flaw, atleast on the some of the first batches.
This is really just being picky.
Mostly an aesthetics issue, as the phone performs just fine, but I notice that the spots where there are openings in the gorilla glass do not quite match up to the main microphone and the earpiece. Anyone's that way, too? Slightly irritating, but the phone works just fine. It is probably completely unnoticeable if you have a black front, but it was one of the first things I noticed on my white Moto X.
This is a pretty asinine problem but I just had a query regarding my Nokia 8.
I've iPhones over the past 5-6 years. The headphone jack on my Nokia 8 seems to be 'mushy'. Now don't get me wrong. The headphone jack fits fairly snugly and is no way loose. There is satisfying click that you generally expect from a headphone jack. I mean the last mm requires a push but it doesn't click into place.
Is this because of the waterproofing and possible water gaskets inside the jack?
The last 5% takes. bit of force to go in but there isn't a metal audible click that I used to hear from other phones/laptops.
It might be a faulty jack cause i don't have that problem.
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Mine is the same, I think.
I've noticed that while the last mm or so of insertion has friction, the 'click' happens early. This means the jack can be pulled out about a mm or so (causing music to pause) without the jack 'letting go'.
By comparison, my S5 headphone jack takes about the same amount of force to release, but it's more 'all or nothing'. It is either fully seated, or fully released. The Nokia 8 has a bit of an 'in between' area.
A bit dissappointing but it hasn't been an issue in real-world use.
EDIT: The issue is much worse using non-mic earphones, I've noticed. They really don't seat properly.
EDIT EDIT: Just tried an in-store demo model - it was faintly better than mine, but still very, very poor compared to every other model of phone. Hard to believe Nokia could stuff up such a simple, easy part of the design.
I have the same problem... I will send my phone to repair, hoping the will do something.